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Azerbaijan-born American #surgeon Allen Oldfather #Whipple died #OTD 60 years ago. He's well known for the pancreatic cancer operation as well as the triad which bear his name.
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Dr. Norman M. Dott was a pioneer of #neurosurgery in the UK.
In 1931 he treated an #aneurysm on the proximal part of a middle cerebral #artery in a patient by wrapping the lesion with a muscle.
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The anatomical table designed by the French naturalist Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty (1711-1786) reproduces the sexual characteristics of a (true) #hermaphrodite who lived in Corsica in the 18th century.
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#OTD in 1898, the french #surgeon Jules-Émile Péan died at the age of 67. He was the first to successfully perform splenectomy and pyloric resection for #cancer treatment. A hemostatic forceps is named after him.
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Normann Barrett (1903-1979) was the first to coin the term "gastroesophageal reflux" to indicate the abnormal reflux of acidic material from the stomach into the esophagus and was the first to describe the esophageal columnar metaplasia that bears his name.
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#OTD is the bicentenary of the death of dr. Edward Jenner. Born in 1749, he was the creator of the #smallpox #vaccine and thus founded a new branch of #medicine called #immunology.
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Ricorre oggi il bicentenario della morte del dott. Edward Jenner. Egli è stato il creatore del #vaccino contro il #vaiolo ed ha fondato così una nuova branca della #Medicina, chiamata #immunologia.
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Gertrude B. Elion was born #OTD in 1918. After a difficult start, in which she was unable to find a stable job, even though she had a degree in #Chemistry, she was hired at Wellcome.
Elion, in collaboration with dr. Hitchings, revolutionized 20th century #pharmacology.
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#OTD of 1777, a pioneer of #physiology, the swiss Albrecht von Haller, died at the age of 69. He studied the properties of the nervous and muscular system and in 1766 published the "Elementa physiologiae corporis humani".
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In an epistle dated 1678, the danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin the younger, son of Thomas and grandson of Caspar the elder, communicated the discovery of glands similar to the prostate that had the function of lubricating the #vagina during coitus.
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